Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince thought for a moment and then replied...
...King descended from his car and in a moment stood in the inn doorway. The company within sat transfixed, then stumbled to their feet. The grinning bride began to blush, the bridegroom, a lusty bricklayer, began to stammer...
...geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded as a great American novelist, especially for Senator North (1900), The Conqueror (1902), Perch of the Devil...
...good golf game, like a good short story, has a pattern; events climb up to a climax, poise for a moment, then climb down again. So it was with the match of Gunn against Jones. The knot in the chain, the plateau of the climb, the scene the reporters were waiting for, came at the 12th hole...
Until that moment, young Gunn was the protagonist. A clever writer, fashioning a story of that morning's play, would make the reader feel that Gunn was going to win. He would dwell on the amazing machine-like perfection of Gunn's every stroke. He would describe how since Jones was playing par golf, Gunn shot under par to win holes from him. He would hint that Gunn could not keep it up. The reader would gather the conviction that Gunn was most certainly going to keep it up. But this would be a literary trick...